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Comment by david duval-hall on May 1, 2011 at 4:28am

our second pahi 42, she looks a bit sad, but we love her

Comment by david duval-hall on May 1, 2011 at 4:29am

this was in may 2009, our first day on board

Comment by luis on May 1, 2011 at 2:16pm

hi david, nice work and nice catamaran, of course;-)

i realize you bought this pahi 42 in holland, did you? some years ago, when i was seeking a larger wharram i put my interest in this pahi 42, think the owner was an old man, but there was a lot of work to do in her, and i live 7,000 miles  from there, so i went for a tiki 38 in better conditions.

one question: it seems that you changed the wharram rope/beam system for a traditional fixed system between the hulls and the bridge, Did you?

again, nice work, enjoy!

are you in cornwall?

rds

luis

Comment by david duval-hall on May 2, 2011 at 2:57pm

Hello Luis, I mentioned you to Peter Hill today, he's on the same yard in Cornwall, building a new catamaran and he says you and him are friends - it's a small world! We bought Eau De Vie (as she's now called) here in England. We bought her from a lady who sailed her from Holland to here; she had a very eventful trip, lots of things kept falling off and breaking! including nearly losing the mast! She put it on the market for sale as soon as she got to England realising how much there was to do to her. 

We had to remove the beams.  Originally we were going to repair them but on closer inspection they were past repairing.  As we were going to put a bridge deck on, we decided to re-think and re-plan the whole process so we used the box beam system which is 9mm marine ply with 50 x 50mm soft wood sandwiched between two faces of ply, and epoxy resined and bolted to the frames in each hull. This makes it enormously strong with a reduction in weight so the whole bridge structure almost equals the original weight of the beams.

I think you made a wise decision Luis, because if you look at the photographs, you'll see the port hull was 80% rotten,  unfortunately including the mast. so she would not have been fit to do any sea trip. I like your Wharram, she looks very pretty and sea-worthy. Our plans for the trip are Portugal, Casablanca, Senegal, Cap Verde, Brazil.

Thanks very much for your nice comments,be good to keep in touch if we can,

regards David, Julie, Lucy, Richard, Nicolas, Henri-David

Comment by luis on May 14, 2011 at 8:27am

hi david, only now i read your post. 

yes, world is very little, but you know, for pete a trip from uk to australia is like a weekend cruise for me ! :-)

last time i met him here in piriapolis pete showed me onboard pelican some drawings of his projected modified kohler with two junked masts. it's a very nice project.

well, you know, uruguay is only a couple of miles south from brazil, so you can visit us.

all the best

luis

Comment by Paul Calvert on January 18, 2012 at 8:22am

Hello David,

I stumbled on your exchange with Luis since I was searching for info on Pete Hill and his catamaran.  do hope he is getting along well with it?  He is a tremendous sailor and builder but not much into writing! Can you share any info about how he is getting on and more about the boat and its junk rig (with his permission of course!).  Kind regards, Paul, with tiki 21 in India

Comment by Geminidawn on September 19, 2013 at 9:51pm

I remember this boat! I was tempted to buy it myself as a step up to the 63. In the end I just figured it would slow me down and I jumped in the deep end of the 63 project instead.

Well done on the re-build it looks like it was a hell of a lot of work.

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